From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Syriac input-method for Emacs Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:33:58 +0200 Message-ID: <83pn45w8a1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2367f2e2-5076-d205-4d98-52708aee2a96@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5545"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 22 19:35:46 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kguDB-0001L3-Tr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 19:35:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41772 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kguDB-0006an-0E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:35:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kguBb-0005sh-K6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:34:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kguBb-00041b-Cr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:34:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4370 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kguBZ-0007yD-D8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:34:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <2367f2e2-5076-d205-4d98-52708aee2a96@gmail.com> (ffsammak@gmail.com) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125485 Archived-At: > From: "Fadi F. Al-Sammak" > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:33:31 +0300 > > I hope this e-mail finds you well and safe. I just found the hebrew.el > file for Hebrew input-method in Emacs which sits in this path: > > emacs-27.1/lisp/leim/quail/hebrew.el > > I would be very interested to have the same setup as an input-method > for the Syriac language. I would be very grateful if you could help me > with that for the Syriac which happens to be also a Right-to-Left > language just as the Hebrew. The main objective is to integrate this > input-method into Emacs, I don't know how difficult this goal to > achieve. The first step in defining an input method is to come up with the layouts of characters on keys of a QWERTY keyboard. Are there accepted standards for Syriac keyboards, and if so, could you show the keyboard layouts? If there are no accepted standards, could you propose an arrangement that would make sense to users of the Syriac script? I see there are several Syriac keyboard layouts on the Internet, perhaps we could use one of them? > I also noticed that there is another hebrew.el file in Emacs source > code which is sitting in this path: > > emacs-27.1/lisp/language/hebrew.el The former is the Hebrew input methods, the latter is the support for Hebrew language other than input methods.